Prosecution Insights
Prosecution Insights
2 pending office actions • 0 art units • 2 examiners • 0 of 2 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 5 patents granted in the last 365 days
UNIVERSITE DE LORRAINE currently has 1 pending office action. This matter is assigned to WARTALOWICZ, PAUL A, who is the busiest examiner for the university with a single pending case. The portfolio's active prosecution involves 1 distinct examiner and 0 distinct art units.
This configuration suggests that the current matter may be in a preliminary stage or transitioning between units. With the current pending office action, the university's immediate US patent activity is highly centralized under WARTALOWICZ, PAUL A. Practitioners should track the progress of this case to see which art unit eventually takes permanent jurisdiction over the filing.
Difficulty is derived from the rejection statutes on the most recent pending office action. §101-driven and multi-statute cases are graded Hard; §112-only and obviousness-type double-patenting cases are graded Easy; everything else is Medium. "Unknown" means we have not yet parsed a statute for that office action.
| Bucket | Cases |
|---|---|
| Multi-statute (no §101) | 2 (100%) |
How the docket's pending cases split across USPTO tech-center bands.
Manual office-action response work runs about 10 hours per case. The time-saved bands below show what IP Author's prosecution pipeline typically delivers — a conservative 20% on the low end, 35% in the middle, 50% on the high end.
| Examiner | Apps on this docket | Allow rate | Interview lift |
|---|---|---|---|
| GZYBOWSKI, MICHAEL STANLEY | 1 | 68.3% | +52.0% |
| WARTALOWICZ, PAUL A | 1 | 64.4% | +18.8% |
Multi-statute / §101-driven matters, or cases in front of an examiner with an allow rate under 30%. The top 2 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18707398 | METHOD AND DEVICE FOR ANALYSING A SET OF SAMPLES OR A SURFACE | GZYBOWSKI, MICHAEL STANLEY | — |
| 18273428 | PROTECTION FOR THE COILS OF AN ELECTRIC MACHINE | WARTALOWICZ, PAUL A | — |
Cases in front of an examiner whose interview lift is 10 percentage points or more — i.e. interviewed cases historically resolve more favorably than non-interviewed ones. The top 2 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18707398 | METHOD AND DEVICE FOR ANALYSING A SET OF SAMPLES OR A SURFACE | GZYBOWSKI, MICHAEL STANLEY | — |
| 18273428 | PROTECTION FOR THE COILS OF AN ELECTRIC MACHINE | WARTALOWICZ, PAUL A | — |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 18707398 | METHOD AND DEVICE FOR ANALYSING A SET OF SAMPLES OR A SURFACE | GZYBOWSKI, MICHAEL STANLEY | — | §103§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | May 03, 2024 |
| 18273428 | PROTECTION FOR THE COILS OF AN ELECTRIC MACHINE | WARTALOWICZ, PAUL A | — | §103§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Jul 20, 2023 |
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